Bernard Lortholary Book order (chronological)

Schlink, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Reader, " brings a sleek concision and moral acuity to these seven tales of modern men uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Brooding, comic, and filled with psychological suspense, "Plights of Love" is nothing less than masterful.

Film tie-in edition of Bernhard Schlink's exceptionally powerful novel - 'A thriller, a love story and a deeply moving examination of a German conscience' [Independent on Saturday]

From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the haunting tale of K.'s relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain access to the Castle. Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman. Arriving in a village to take up the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties. The Castle's original manuscript was left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death. Scrupulously following the fluidity and breathlessness of the sparsely punctuated original manuscript, Mark Harman's new translation reveals levels of comedy, energy, and visual power previously unknown to English language readers.

„Kontrabasistą nie można się urodzić. Kontrabasistą zostaje się z przypadku i rozczarowania” – opowiada o sobie tyleż tragiczny, co śmieszny muzyk nieudacznik, bohater monodramu rozsławionego przez Jerzego Stuhra. W dopełnieniu tej historii „o samoświadomości człowieka w jego maleńkim pokoiku” znajdziemy opowiadania „Gołąb” oraz „Trzy historie i jedno rozważanie”. Pełna swoistego humoru, błyskotliwa, niepowtarzalna proza jednego z najbardziej oryginalnych współczesnych autorów. Nie tylko dla miłośników „Pachnidła”!

In America, Kafka leads the reader through a world of strips, hotels and offices that grow stranger and stranger and more comic and bewildering, the more realistically the author describes them.

“When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, “Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man.”